The Comments Section, Part 9 (Gender Neutral Pronouns)

Looks like the Oxford dictionary actually confirms that word "they" and its variants have been in use as a singular pronoun since the 16th century, and people didn't start insisting that it was "gramatically incorrect" to use it that way until recently.
Here are some examples:

• "Ask a friend if they could help."
• "I mentioned this to someone at work today and they looked at me funny."
• "My friend got so mad they turned off their cell phone."

They / them / their / themself - these have been used as singular pronouns for unspecified gender for centuries now. The only difference I'm seeing is that now, for non-binary people, we often include their name in the sentence. 
For example:

• "Ask Jamie if they can help."
• "I mentioned this to Taylor at work today, and they looked at me funny."
• "Jules got so mad they turned off their cell phone."

Now suddenly people have trouble with it. Now these people have names, which causes us to try and paint a picture of the person's gender and appearance. But we're not specifying their gender, despite the fact we specified their name. It feels like we're only specifying part of the person.

This goes to show that isn't about they/them pronouns being grammatically incorrect. This is about us associating names with genders so closely that we feel like we're getting incomplete information.

But if a person clearly tells you that they use they/them pronouns, you're not getting incomplete information. That is ALL the information. Just accept that non-binary genders exist and move on. The sooner we accept this change in our language, the sooner we can stop making these people invisible. We need to just move on and stop antagonizing these people for who they are. Their lives are hard enough already.